The appointment of an ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina BiH at the request of the President of the Republika Srpska RS is a topic that interests the public because of the constitutional provisions that entrusted foreign policy to the State Presidency. In the case of BiH, nothing is that simple.
The state constitution, which is superior to the entity constitution, points out that foreign policy is the responsibility of BiH, which includes the appointment of ambassadors, in such a way that the Presidency of BiH is responsible for foreign policy, appointing ambassadors and other international representatives of BiH.
A maximum of two-thirds of ambassadors can be selected from the Federation of BiH FBiH, which also reflects the structure of the Presidency, where two of three members are selected from the FBiH.
If it is still not possible to reach a consensus, two members of the Presidency adopt the decision unless one of the members declares it destructive to the entity's vital interest. The declaration is then delivered to the authorized entity bodies.
In the case of the RS, the National Assembly is responsible for this, while in the FBiH, the Bosniak and Croat people's caucus are in the House of Peoples of the FBiH.
They claim that the president of the RS nominates ambassadors and other international representatives from BiH from that entity, as stated by Amendment L of the Constitution of the RS.
In its decision from 2000, on request of the Chairman of the BiH Presidency, Alija Izetbegovic, from 1998, the Constitutional Court of BiH pointed out that issues that are not explicitly listed in the Constitution are not necessarily the exclusive competence of the institutions, but should be decided by the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH PABiH How the proposal of the appointment of new ambassadors is now being problematized based on the request of the Chairman of BiH Presidency, Alija Izetbe
After the list of proposals for new ambassadors of the BiH Presidency member Denis Becirovic was published, they reacted from the RS since they did not like some of the names on the list, which culminated in Cvijanovic s statement that Dodik was actively involved in the process.
Klix.ba reports that Becirovic said that it is not Dodik's topic because he is the entity president.